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.Johnson's Universal CyclorycdIn,
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m editor Of the highest acholarly standing
for each-viz: Public Law, etc, Pres. I
D. Woolsey, LID; Civil Law, etc, Prot
7. w. Dwight, LID; American History
ETC., Hon. Horace Greeley, LID, Hon
Alexander Stephens, LID and Hon. a.
R. SpofIord, LID; Botany, ETC., Prot.
Asa Grsy, LID. /; Medicine, Prof. Viii.
lard Parker, NJ. d., LID; Education,
Schools, etc., Hon. John D. Philbrick,
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hal as much 1t is truly the busy mans
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lessor Guyot, the eminent Swiss natural.
let and goographer, Ia an entirely original
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bject-mntter, and even in the lstructure
OF it's articles. These emiuent tnchoIara
conceived the idea Of dividing the work
into thirty.thrae departments, placing at
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ehonld have sole charge and be reapons;-
bio for the manner In which the work was
done. a systematic course lsI been EN-.
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aim having been to cover q much wider
Held in aciencs, literature and art, and to
make the work an authority on each topic
treated. The most eminent specialists,
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will be, found to answer more questions In
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on American subjects, and 70 contain
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l0.000 volumes, and as ready a book Of
reference as Webster's Dictionary. and 10
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subjects which that WORK holds 10 words
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padia. AZ careful examination Of >the
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